Job Description
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join us in Berlin or remotely. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will support a team of engineers working on our AI Search Experience.
The AI Search Experience team works on building high-quality AI-powered search experiences. The team focuses on grounding LLM responses in trusted data (e.g. point of interest, knowledge bases, travel) and the open web, tailoring responses to specific user intents and use cases (e.g. studying for their exam, discovering a travel destination), and continuously improving quality, reliability, and transparency. The team collaborates closely with sister teams across our conversational search product and with our Platform team to ship cohesive AI features, loved by our users. The team directly contributes to Ecosia’s mission to provide a modern, sovereign European-search experience.
In addition, the AI Search Experience team owns and evolves a new internal frontend stack based on modern open-source libraries. This stack is used by multiple teams across the company as their frontend foundation, and the team is responsible for maintaining, improving, and enabling others to build on top of it effectively.
As their Engineering Manager, you will combine effective technical leadership with people management. In collaboration with your Product and Engineering peers, you will enrich our equitable, inclusive, curious, and outcome-oriented Engineering culture.
What you’ll be doing
Partner closely with your Product and Design counterparts to shape the AI Search Experience strategy and translate ambiguous problem spaces into clear technical direction.
Support the team in building and improving AI-powered search features, including:
Grounding LLM responses in structured data and the web
Improving response quality, relevance, and trustworthiness
Tailoring outputs to specific user intents and use cases
Guide architectural decisions around LLM integration, retrieval systems, evaluation pipelines, and experimentation.
Ensure operational excellence, reliability, observability, and scalability of AI systems in production.
Oversee the development and maintenance of our internal frontend framework stack, ensuring it remains robust, well-documented, and easy to adopt by other teams.
Collaborate with other Search teams to enable seamless cross-team initiatives and shared technical standards.
Enable your team to thrive by removing roadblocks, facilitating decisions, resolving conflicts, and continuously improving processes.
Hold regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth conversations to support career development through coaching and mentoring.
Review team performance and ensure fair, equitable evaluation and compensation.
Promote a culture of continuous learning, especially around AI engineering best practices, experimentation, and responsible AI development.
Co-create a collaborative and inclusive culture in line with our company values.
What you bring
Enjoy developing and growing people and have a documented history of leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring engineers with different profiles and backgrounds.
At least 5+ years of experience designing and shipping software to production, including guiding initiatives end-to-end (from problem framing to monitoring systems in production).
Solid technical depth, with experience in AI/ML engineering, LLM-based systems, search, information retrieval, or data-intensive systems.
Proficiency navigating a modern web stack, cloud environments, and infrastructure-as-code.
A solid sense of ownership, pragmatism, and bias toward action.
A clear commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to building psychologically safe teams.
Process:
Talent Partner call (⏱️ 45’)
Leadership Interview (⏱️ 60’)
Technical conversation (⏱️ 1h15’)
Product call (⏱️ 60’)
Why Ecosia?
What if your job made a real difference in the climate crisis? Join Ecosia and help plant millions of trees where people and ecosystems need them most.
We are a diverse team, committed to equality, equity, and inclusion, with members from various backgrounds: sexual orientations, genders, ages, races, ethnicities, nationalities, physical and mental disabilities, family structures, and religions.
We offer you the opportunity to balance work with other parts of your life: flexible working hours, 30 vacation days per year (based on a five-day workweek), designated Focus Times, and remote work options. (Note: Not applicable to freelance contracts; different labor laws may apply in other countries.)
Our green benefits program - including subsidized public transport cards and bike inspection services - supports your sustainable living choices in Berlin. (Availability may vary by location; not applicable to freelance contracts.)
We support your professional growth through learning times, hack days, online and physical libraries, and continuous feedback. (Not applicable to freelance contracts.)
Q&A
How many people work at Ecosia?
About 100! Our departments include Engineering, Product, Trees, People, and Operations.
Where is Ecosia based, and what kind of work setup do we have?
We are a remote-friendly company with one office in Berlin-Wedding. People come to the office or work from home per their wishes and/or circumstances. Some roles require presence in the office at least from time to time. Company language: English.
